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Show SOME STARRING STATEMTS IDE United States Unfitted for Representative Government, Govern-ment, Says Dr Beard CHICAGO Dec 30--The Un ted States and nations of the Occident are unfitted for representat! e form of government according to a statement by Dr Charle Austin Beard of Columbia univers ty to daj during a d scussion at the American Political Sc ence assoc atton Dr Beard Interrupted Dr Frank J Goodnow of Johns Hopkins university formerly po 1 tlcal adviser to the government of China who had dec ared that owing to the Chi nese conception of nd v dual rights and to economic conditions In China the Chi nese were not ready for a repub i Professor Sudh ndra Bose a H ndu cro fessor n the Univers ty of Iowa made I the d scussion the occas on of sa ng tha the orient wou d do better if Americans and Europeans wou d leave it alone There are certain H ndu v Uaes where tl e princ p a of representat! e govern ment is o ked out mort satisfactor ly than anywhere e se In the world he a d The or ent s not backward nor beh nd the times The Ch nese w U work out a sat sfa torv ey& em of representat ve government f they are not hampered by neddlesome westerners In exp ainlno- himself Dr peard said The preponderance of d ssatisfaction with condit ons in Amer ca today the ex stence of stead ly grow ng rad cal doc trines the great unrest itse f are evi dences that our form of government has fai ed Dr -Goodnow sa d that representative eove nn ent would fail in Ch na because the CI inese lack a sense of fiduciary rela tons I ask jou if that rtue exists in Amer ca today My patr mony a mod est one now rests n the pocke s of a man who g or es to trace hlmse f back : o the Pilgi n fathers My savings from a I fetime of work I invested In the New Haven at 160 I think that explains Itse f The meaning of this 1 es with the growt of monopol es and corporations and amass of great fortunes The con dit ons which gave birth to our republic ha e d sappeared Thomas Jefferson h m , se f be eved that representative govern i ment was su ed for agricu tural not in dustr a nat ons |